LIMITS ON OVERTIME SAVE CITY MILLIONS

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Sharp controls of city overtime costs resulted in an end-of-year city budget surplus of $11.5 million, according to City Comptroller Walter Knorr.

Knorr said an outside audit report by the firm of Deloitte & Touche indicated that as of Dec. 31, 1989, city spending controls had headed off an estimated budget shortfall that Mayor Richard Daley had feared.

''Even the Department of Streets and Sanitation, whose spending caused us concern a year ago, came in under budget by $5.4 million in 1989,'' Knorr said. The city`s annual budget is slightly more than $3 billion for 1990.